I'm old enough to have been in junior high when Mandy came out and IIRC people weren't all that freaked out about it then - nobody knew him, it was his first hit and the cool kids hadn't yet deemed Barry Manilow forever uncool. Then a short time later, KISS came out with "Beth" which is equally as wimpy a song, piano ballad with strings and all, but they mostly got a pass. Maybe Barry should have worn clown makeup and kitty whiskers and platform shoes. Maybe he does, I haven't seen him in a while. And no, computer, I'm not going to add "Manilow" to spell check.

FirstNationalBastard:GAT_00: FirstNationalBastard: GAT_00: Seriously? You put Jamie on there and you go with farking Weezer? Oooh, she made the whiny biatch sad. Jamie shot her dad because he wouldn't stop raping her.

That was Janie, not Jamie.

Although Van Halen had Jamie crying for some reason... probably when she found out David Lee Roth had hairplugs.

Well I'll be damned. I never heard an n there. It's still a list fail to leave it off.

Indeed it is. That was a hit song in 89/90. And if anything's a name ruiner, it's being associated with a girl who shoots her incest lovin rapist daddy.

/well, as much of a "name ruiner" as any of these songs are.//Also, the Van Halen song may also have been Janie. But I don't think Van Halen's Janie was crying because her Daddy was an incest-loving rapist.///Beth should have been on the list, too. I mean, listen to the lyrics... Beth was a nag who wouldn't leave her old man alone to do his job.

I am so disappoint with you people.

1978 will tell us that Jamie's Cryin' because she should mean more than a one night stand.

Also, the name Gloria was much enhanced by Patti Smith and her smooth declarations.